The dried leaves are flat from being pressed in a wok and are mostly intact. I grimaced a little when the David’s tea employee tried to squash them down to fit in the can. You get a lot of green leaf colour in the leaves after brewing. These are not the hand rolled type of leaves with the entire leaf, but a smaller section.
If you brew this as recommended, with 500 mL of water, the result is a very light green tea. There’s nothing really strong in the flavour or smell like some Chinese green teas. Just a refreshing drink. A good starting point for new green tea drinkers.
However, if you brew it with 4g and 200 mL doing multiple steepings, you get something stronger and more interesting.
The brewed colour is yellow. There is a light fresh scent of hay or something.
If I was just looking for something light and refreshing, I would drink this. When brewed weak, it’s a change from other green teas.
You can definitely tell the difference between this and a $3 box of fresh green tea bags. At $20 / 100 g, there are a lot of other green teas though. Japanese Sencha being one of them.
Dried Leaves
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Brewed Leaf
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I forgot to mention, you can eat these tea leaves too. Throw a little salad dressing on them, or mix them in with some rice and flavouring.